A sweep of candidates running on a green, renewable energy platform in last week’s LPEA Board election  
 
Angelina Jolie taking the bold pre-emptive strike against hereditary breast cancer by having a double mastectomy, giving other women courage to do the same and bringing national attention to the topic    
 		  
 
Gov. Hickenlooper signing into law a bill that will extend Medicaid to more than 160,000 uninsured Coloradans  
News this week that global warming has reached Mount Everest, where glaciers have shrunk by 13 percent and the snowline has receded by 590 feet in the last 50 years
 
 

The second military member in as many weeks working under the guise of sexual assault prevention being brought up on charges of sexual assault and pimping
 

  
 
   
The State Department of Corrections reveling that hundreds of inmates have erroneously been released early from prison, including the parolee who allegedly murdered corrections chief Tom Clements